Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

Steven M. Bellovin smb at research.att.com
Wed Jan 7 23:32:51 UTC 2004


In message <20040107231727.714B.RICHARD at mandarin.com>, Richard D G Cox writes:
>
>On 7 Jan 2004 23:02 UTC Frank Louwers <frank at openminds.be> wrote:
>| > generated twice per day, so NN is usually either 00 or 01.)
>| > January 1970.)  For example, a zone published on 9 February 2004 might
>| > have serial number "1076370400".  The .com and .net zones will still
>| > be generated twice per day, but this serial number format change is in
>| > preparation for potentially more frequent updates to these zones.
>
>| stuid question
>
>Yup!
>
>| but isn't 2004010101 (today) > 1076370400 (9 Feb 2004)?
>
>Nope!

Now I'm very confused -- bc says that it is...  (Well, I used
2004010700, which is what I get for the current SOA.)


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb





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